Word: programming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Where Are You From? began last year when Maurice Dreicer, who was conducting a program called The Speechmaster for Brooklyn's small station WCNW, put on Dr. Smith as a guest. Lofty-browed station WQXR built a program around the young lecturer; WOR and the Mutual chain signed him up a month ago. Program time: 8:30 p.m. E. D. S. T. on Wednesdays...
...almost three times the total of aircraft sales for 1939, more than twice the aggregate value of U. S. aero nautical exports to the world market in the past 18 years. More was to come. Before the Allies have finished the "first phase" of their aircraft procurement program (reputedly within the next few months), they will place another $350,000,000 of orders for delivery in the next 18 months. Manufacturers, hanging on the tail of a high-flying business kite, expect the orders in plenty of time for delivery of ships early in 1942 if they are still needed...
Donald Ferguson, 57, has been at Minnesota 27 years, is program annotator for the Minneapolis Symphony, author of a widely used textbook, A History of Musi cal Thought. On the podium he conducts with fury, grunting and grimacing while his hair seems to stand on end. Once in a gymnastic passage his baton flew out of his grasp. Once in a difficult passage, Professor Ferguson grew so pleased that he entirely forgot to lead. Neither time did the chorus get out of the groove...
Ballad For Americans (Victor). Two-disc album of the patriotic spine-tingler first heard on the Pursuit of Happiness radio program (TIME, Nov. 20). Discounting the influence of Poets Whitman, MacLeish, Anderson and Composer Kurt Weill (Knickerbocker Holiday) on the script and score of Messrs. Robinson and Latouche, even sophisticated listeners should get a kick out of this hopeful musical U. S. history. Paul Robeson, as the Voice Nobody Knows until the last stanza, sings bravely...
Buck Benny Rides Again hides Comedian Benny under a ten-gallon hat, takes him west to prove himself a he-man to attractive Ellen Drew. Otherwise it is just a Jack Benny radio program minus Mary Livingstone (Mrs. Jack Benny), and Benny addicts should find it just as entertaining. It has Rochester (Eddie Ander son), Benny's gravel-voiced, colored stooge; Carmichael (the polar bear); the disembodied voice of Fred Allen (whose mock feud with Benny weekly wows their camp followers); tunes, dances, a lot of fancy showmanship, girls and gags. People with a taste for deeper humor...